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Cognus Education Safeguarding Manager attends Children’s Care First Awards 2024

On Saturday 26th October, Hayley Cameron (Education Safeguarding Manager) was invited to attend the Children’s Care First Awards 2024. This gave us the opportunity to listen to people with lived experience of being in the care system. It was so uplifting being in a room with so many different agencies all working together to improve […]

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Sutton LSCP holds Child Sexual Abuse Learning Event to raise awareness of the impact of ‘under reporting’ across all agencies

On Thursday 26th September, the LSCP held a learning event at The Chaucer Centre to talk about Child Sexual Abuse and the barriers to reporting, which is an issue both locally and nationally. Hayley Cameron (Education Safeguarding Manager, Cognus) was on the working party to develop this event and worked with both primary and secondary […]

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#AttendToAchieve is Green To Go

Following a period of implementation we are delighted to be able to share that we have now reached a point where Sutton is deemed ‘Green’ on our self-assessment, by the Department for Education (DfE) in our implementation of the ‘working together to improve school attendance’ duties. This is fantastic news for the Cognus, the Local […]

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Social GGRRAAACCEEESSS supervision session is success for SaLTs

Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapists working for Cognus Therapies were recently offered valuable in-service training from Cognus’ Educational Psychology Team on ‘Managing Difficult Conversations’. Principal Educational Psychologist, Nicholas (Nick) English delivered this training at Cognus’ offices, Cantium House in May 2024 to a large group of interested therapists. As part of the training, […]

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Cognus Education Safeguarding Manager talks about her ‘why’ and the importance of safeguarding supervision and networking.

Last term, Hayley Cameron (Education Safeguarding Manager) was invited to be a guest speaker at a virtual event hosted by Foster Inspire. This provided the opportunity to not only share her story in terms of how she came to work in safeguarding and the reasons behind what she does today, but also to promote Cognus […]

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End of year network event for Designated Safeguarding Leads

Cognus Education Safeguarding Team hold end of year network event for Designated Safeguarding Leads at Cantium House On 10th July 2024, the Education Safeguarding Team held an end of year network event for Designated Safeguarding Leads at Cantium House. This is the one day of the year where we are actively encouraged to stop and […]

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Summer Fun Workshop 30/07/2024

The Paving the Way team welcomed 10 families to their workshop on Tuesday, despite the heat! We were also lucky enough to have Yen Lim, Art Psychotherapist join us. We had fun making beach scenes and playing games and each child went home with a bag full of creative goodies. We are looking forward to […]

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Paving the Way parent coffee morning

The Paving the Way team recently held a parent coffee morning at St Cecilia’s RC Primary School, with the focus on parent mental health and well-being. Parents were invited to come along and spend some time considering their own needs as a parent, and learn some practical tips on self-care. Early Intervention and Identification (Paving […]

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Building Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in a mainstream setting

Jo Wells, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist has been building awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in a mainstream school, providing training and support to enable them to provide support to a child with DLD. By providing them with this support, linking in the universal approach (strategies implemented into the classroom for all children), […]

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Empowering SEND Champions working with pupils with social, emotional, and mental health needs.

Jessica Wood, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, recently delivered an interactive, fun and informative workshop for 15 of our dedicated SEND Champions. This event marked the third workshop of the year under Cognus Therapies’ Graduated Response initiative, which aims to support schools within the London Borough of Sutton (LBS). The workshop brought together staff from […]

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